Herpes, an incurable virus, threatens to undo the sexual revolution

After chastity slouched off into exile in the '60s, the sexual
revolution encountered little resistance. Indeed, in the age of the
Pill, Penthouse Pets and porn-movie cassettes, the revolution looked so
sturdily permanent that sex seemed to subside into a simple consumer
item. Now, suddenly, the old fears and doubts are edging back. So is
the fire and brimstone rhetoric of the Age of Guilt. The reason for all
this dolor: herpes, an ancient viral infection that can be transmitted
during sex, recurs fitfully and cannot be...